Category: Unclouding

I switched (back) from iOS to Android and live to tell the tale.

I switched phones recently, from an iPhone SE 2020 to a Samsung A54.

There are multiple reasons: the biggest one is price – the A54 cost me under 400 euro, about half the price of an iPhone that would make sense. The second is fingerprint scanning: iPhones don’t have these any more, meaning I’d look like a clown multiple times a day (when paying or 2FA’ing). The third is battery life: I needed something that I don’t need to charge every 6 hours.

So what’s it like to use Android after iOS, Gergo?

Well, I’ll tell you. Continue reading I switched (back) from iOS to Android and live to tell the tale.

Syncing my notes between OSes using Nextcloud as backend proved to be more trivial than I thought.

For the longest time, I needed a solution to effortlessly sync notes between my multiple laptops, and yesterday I stumbled upon the simplest, trivial even, and almost-perfect solution to this. Continue reading Syncing my notes between OSes using Nextcloud as backend proved to be more trivial than I thought.

Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) install and config, and other useful related things.

I couldn’t find a good comprehensive doc on installing Collabora native packages on Linux, and I had my fair share of trial-and-error while doing it myself, so here we go, I’m doing an organized dump of my notes on the subject.

Continue reading Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) install and config, and other useful related things.